Artist/Maker R. Bliss Manufacturing Company (American, 1830 – 1935)

Game of Ring Toss

ca. 1890

Place madePawtucket, Rhode Island, United States, North America

Cardboard, paper, wood

Overall: 3/4 × 7 in. (1.9 × 17.8 cm)
Container (box): 15 1/2 × 8 7/8 × 1 7/8 in. (39.4 × 22.5 × 4.8 cm)

The Liman Collection

2000.278a-k

DescriptionTable game with box, three balsa wood rings covered with cotton sleeves and a wooden ring catcher with two feet and two turned and painted wooden dowels; on cover of cardboard box, color lithographed illustration of two children playing "Ring Toss" in front of a fountain with "Game of Ring Toss" above.

MarkingsLithographed on the cover: "GAME OF RING TOSS/ RBLISS/ 399"

ClassificationsTOYS

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